Five reported killed, including girl, in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon |
Five people, including a girl, were reported killed on Saturday in southern Lebanon as the Israel Defense Forces carried out a series of strikes after issuing evacuation warnings to nine villages.
Residents of Tayr Debba, Aabbasiyyeh, Burj Rahal, Maaroub, Barish, Arzoun, Jannata, Zrariyeh, and Ain Baal were instructed to evacuate at least a kilometer away.
“In light of the Hezbollah terror organization’s violations of the ceasefire agreement, the IDF is forced to act against it with force and does not intend to harm you,” warned army spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee.
Lebanese media reported at least five dead in the subsequent Israeli airstrikes.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that three people were killed when a strike hit a car on a road between the towns of Burj Rahal and Aabbasiyyeh.
NNA reported several more strikes near the towns of Nabatieh, Kafra, Haris, and Mansouri.
In a separate incident, a Syrian man and his 12-year-old daughter were reported killed in Israeli drone strikes.
NNA, citing a health ministry statement, said that the man and his daughter were riding a motorcycle when they were targeted in Nabatieh.
According to the statement, the first drone strike did not hit the pair, while a second killed the father. The man’s daughter then moved around 100 meters away before she was targeted in a third strike.
The girl was taken to a hospital in serious condition, where she succumbed to her wounds, NNA reported
The IDF said it was looking into the report.
In addition, Lebanese media reported that at least two vehicles were targeted in Israeli strikes on a coastal highway south of Beirut.
The vehicles were struck near the seaside town of Saadiyat, some 70 kilometers north of Israel’s border, according to the reports.
There was no immediate comment from the IDF.
The strikes came after the IDF said it struck over 85 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in the past day, along with an underground weapons site in the Beqaa Valley.
According to the military, the targets in........